The aim of this paper is to study the relation between economic development and urban hierarchies?<np pagenum="302"/> evolutions in the Mediterranean from 1960 to 2000. The paper clearly demonstrates that the countries with a higher income per capita (France, Spain, Italy) have a less hierarchical city-size...

This study aims to assess the impact of the activity of the Toulon DCN on the Var with the help of two approaches, the first of which is level-based and determines the values of both economic base multipliers and input-output multipliers by composing an input-output table of the Var economy ;...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the regional disparities of the literacy rates of the gender in Tunisia according to the latest population census of 2004. A spatial econometric model shows that different socio-economic factors appear particularly explain the literacy rates of the Tunisian...

The establishment of multinational firms in the technological sector may have different effects on growth and on the location where domestic firms choose to set up in a developing country, depending on whether linkage effects or the effects of competition prevail. This theoretical model,...